6-Hydrazinonicotinic acid (HYNIC, 1) is a well-established bifunctional technetium-binding ligand often used to synthesise bioconjugates for radiolabelling with Tc-99m. It is capable of efficient capture of technetium at extremely low concentrations, but the structure of the labelled complexes is heterogeneous and incompletely understood. In particular, it is of interest to determine whether, at the no-carrier-added level, it acts in a chelating or non-chelating mode. Here we report two new isomers of HYNIC: 2-hydrazinonicotinic acid (2-HYNIC, 2), which (like 1) is capable of chelation through the mutually orthohydrazine and pyridine nitrogens and 4-hydrazinonicotinic acid (4-HYNIC, 3), which is not (due to the para-relationship of the hydrazine and pyridine nitrogens). LC–MS shows that the coordination chemistry of 2 with technetium closely parallels that of conventional 1, and no advantages of one over the other in terms of potential labelling efficiency or isomerism were discernable. Both 1 and 2 formed complexes with the loss of 5 protons from the ligand set, whether the co-ligand was tricine or EDDA. Ligand 3, however, failed to complex technetium except at very high ligand concentration: the marked contrast with 1 and 2 suggests that chelation, rather than nonchelating coordination, is a key feature of technetium coordination by HYNIC. Two further new HYNIC analogues, 2-chloro-6-hydrazinonicotinic acid (2-chloro-HYNIC, 4a) and 2,6-dihydrazinonicotinic acid (diHYNIC, 5) were also synthesised. The coordination chemistry of 4a with technetium was broadly parallel to that of 1 and 2 although it was a less efficient chelator, while 5 also behaved as an efficient chelator of technetium, but its coordination chemistry remains poorly defined and requires further investigation before it can sensibly be adopted for 99mTc-labelling. The new analogues 4a and 5 present an opportunity to develop trifunctional HYNIC analogues for more complex bioconjugate synthesis.
6-氢
肼基
喹啉酸(HYNIC,1)是一种广泛使用的双功能
钼结合
配体,通常用于合成放射性标记的
生物偶联物。它能够在极低浓度下有效捕获
钼,但标记复合物的结构是异质的,尚未完全理解。尤其值得关注的是,在无载体加入
水平下,它是以螯合或非螯合模式起作用。我们在此报告了两种HYNIC的新异构体:2-氢
肼基
喹啉酸(2-HYNIC,2),它(如1一样)能够通过相互邻位的氢
肼和
吡啶氮实现螯合,以及4-氢
肼基
喹啉酸(4-HYNIC,3),由于氢
肼和
吡啶氮的对位关系,它无法螯合。LC–MS显示,2与
钼的配位
化学与传统的1非常相似,在潜在标记效率或异构体方面没有显著优劣之分。无论共
配体是三
氨基
乙酸还是E
DDA,1和2都形成了失去5个质子的复合物。然而,
配体3仅在非常高的
配体浓度下才会与
钼形成配合物,这与1和2形成了明显对比,表明螯合而非非螯合配位是HYNIC与
钼配位的关键特征。此外,还合成了另外两种新的HYNIC类似物:2-
氯-6-氢
肼基
喹啉酸(2-
氯-HYNIC,4a)和2,6-二氢
肼基
喹啉酸(diHYNIC,5)。4a与
钼的配位
化学与1和2基本相似,尽管它的螯合效率较低,而5也表现出作为
钼的高效
螯合剂,但其配位
化学尚未明确,需要进一步研究,以便可以合理地应用于99mTc标记。新的类似物4a和5为开发三功能HYNIC类似物以合成更复杂的
生物偶联物提供了机会。